The Perceptual Science Group of the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT does research in human vision, machine vision, human-computer interaction, and touch sensing for robotics. Both the Adelson Lab and the Rosenholtz Lab are part of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), located in the Stata Center.

Attention and limited capacity: Ruth Rosenholtz has a new paper on what we have learned about attention by studying peripheral vision. This leads us to a new conceptualization of limited capacity in vision and the mechanisms for dealing with it. ”Capacity limits and how the visual system copes with them.”

Modelling visual crowding: Shaiyan and Ruth's work testing a unified account of visual crowding has been accepted to the Journal of Vision.

Paper accepted to IROS 2014: Rui and Wenzhen's work on adapting the Gelsight sensor for robotic touch has been accepted to IROS 2014. This work was done in collaboration with the Platt group at NEU, and it was covered by MIT News.

Tactile sensing for manipulation
If robots are to perform everyday tasks in the real world, they will need sophisticated tactile sensing. The tactile data must be integrated into multi-sensory representations that support exploration, manipulation, and other tasks.